1303-05-07, Newcastle upon Tyne

The like to Henry Spigurnel and Robert de Retford, touching Geoffrey Kempe, John Graunt, John Gerard and Robert Topyn of Norwich, and the whole commonalty of that town, who assaulted Roger de Hales, coroner of the county of Norfolk, in the execution of his office on a body found dead in a place in Norwich called Tomeland and Ratounerawe, assaulted Richard de Hakeford, bailiff of the king's hundred of Bloufeld, and other men of that hundred who were there hy summons of the bailiff, made on the mandate of the coroner in the king's name, snatched the coroner s rolls from his hands, tore and trampled them, and prevented him exercising his office, notwithstanding that the said place belongs to the said hundred and not to the liberty of the town of Norwich, and the coroners of the county outside the town have been accustomed to exercise their office there when requisite, and the bailiffs of that hundred have been accustomed to be answerable before the justices in eyre in those parts as well as before the said coroners in all matters touching that place. By K.